-: This lesson is about the WAVTool matrix.
So let's dive right in.
If you click on a clip here,
if you double click on something,
you will notice this matrix will appear down here.
So what this is, is it's essentially a pathway
that says that this MIDI data will go into this synth here,
which you could change the synth if you wanted to.
And then it connects from here, down to this channel strip,
which then goes to this amplifier,
which goes to this reverb.
The channel strip has a double output of also going
to this side chain sub mix.
If you wanted to affect anything a little bit more,
you can go ahead and click this pull down menu
for some different options.
And the synth has many, many options.
It has all the parameters you would expect from a synth,
from different oscillators that generate the sound,
portamento, the velocity curve,
going down through two oscillators.
We have a sub,
we have a filter and envelope attack,
and decay, and sustain.
So we can go ahead and click on any of these functions,
and it will pull up the synth here,
in what might look more familiar
to someone who understands sound design.
So what you can do is
if you want to tweak a specific feature,
you can go ahead and we wanted to tweak this filter here,
so we can see that this envelope
has the basic features that a filter might have.
So here you can tweak anything
you would need to tweak about the synth.
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So if we mute our other lead,
we're turning this one into a much pluckier sound.
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Turn it up a little bit
if we wanted to transpose it.
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Now it's up in octave, there's a low pass filter.
That's a high pass filter, very different.
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Increase the voices maybe.
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Increase the decay.
And you could go on to tweak anything else about this.
I actually do like this sound.
So let's go ahead and save this preset.
We'll save it as Sunpluck variation. We'll save it locally.
And there we go.
We've tweaked our synth to make it more of our own.
So this channel matrix works by just clicking
where you want something to go.
So if we click add device,
let's say we want to add a flanger,
we can move this here,
and you would click from the amplifier,
going now into the flanger.
So now the amplifier goes to the reverb
and it goes to the flanger,
and that's how this matrix works.
You just simply click from the out
where you want it to go in,
and you just have a clean path,
starting from here into a sound,
and then wherever you want this sound to go.
As far as matrixes go, this one's pretty straightforward
and pretty intuitive.
Sometimes they look a little intimidating,
but it really is just a long chain of where something starts
and where something ends.